Architects Without Borders

There is an immediate need for design professional volunteers in Leogane, Haiti to perform building damage assessments. People needed:

• architects or designers with ATC training (or other relevant experience)
• structural enginel volunteers

At this time, general volunteers are not needed.

We’d like to see a group of design professionals from the Seattle area team together for a 1-2 week volunteer trip.  Anticipate departing no later than May 1.  There may be some monetary and organizational support for the team, though be prepared to cover your own travel expenses to and from Leogane.  Most questions about volunteering in Leogane can be found on this web page – http://hodr.org/volunteer-info/project-leogane-volunteer-info/

If you are interested, and have read through the information in the link above…. and are still interested, please contact either:

Rachel Minnery: rminnery@gmail.com (architects)
Scott Douglas: sdouglas@dci-engineers.com (engineers)

From the disaster coalition of AIA and SEAW Disaster Response, Architects Without Borders-Seattle

Other links of interest:
See this excellent article on the Chile earthquake and Seattle connection: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/opinion/28yanev.html?scp=1&sq=yanev&st=cse
See also reports on Haiti and Chile:
http://www.crew.org/index.html